Bell and method of making same



Sept. 18, 1951 B. J. FRANKEL ETAL 2,568,190

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Application May 10, 1949, serial No. 92,278

9 Claims. (Cl. 116-170) Thisinvention is directed to a bell of the sleigh bell, and jingle bell type, and to the method of making the same. Infparticular the invention is directed to a bell having tangs or prongs thereon for the purpose of attaching the'bell to a supporting structure, and to themethod of forming these tangs. y v

In the past, these jingle bells have been constructed with an aperture in thevupper portion of the bell throughwhich screws or rivets are passed in order to secure the bell to a supporting material. Some of the prior constructions included spurs or prongs which partially penetrated the material in order to keep the bell from rotating or twisting on the material, but these spurs or prongs were not used for securing the bell to the material. The additional use of rivets, screws or the like made the securing of the bell to the supporting material a relatively expensive procedure. Y

It is an object of this invention to construct a bell which can be secured'to a supportingv material quickly and inexpensively. .Further objects of the invention are to develop a method of forming a jingle bell 'to provide tangs usable for securing the bell to a supporting material, without detrimentally affecting the characteristics of the bell, and to produce a bell having such tangs which can penetrate and fasten over supporting material to hold the bell securely in place without the necessity of using other fastening means.

Generally these objects of the invention are accomplished by producing anx-shaped lcut in the center of a flat bell blank, and striking pointed tangs, spurs, or prongs, from the two opposed V-shaped cuts so formed. The blank is then further bent into bell form. The V-shaped tangs are inherently sharp pointed, and are capable of penetrating a, supporting material and v being bent over the opposite face of the supporting material to hold the bell in place without the use of further fastening means. The use of an X-sh-aped cut in the blank means but two slits in the blank to make sharp point-ed tangs at the point of intersection of the legs of the X, as compared to the use of three slits if a Z-shaped cut were made.

The means by which the objects of the invention are obtained are more fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure l is a plan view of -a bell blank constructed according to the instant invention;

Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view through a bell blank after the tangs have been struck therefrom;

Figure 3 is a cross-sectional view through a bell shaped from the partially formed blank of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a cross-sectional View throughI a bell blank further modified from the form of Figure l;

Figure 5 is a side elevational view of a bell constructed from the blank of Figure 4;

Figure 6 is a plan view of Figure 5; and

Figure '7 is a side elevational View, partially in cross-section, showing the manner of attaching the bell to a supporting material.

In Figure 1 the bell blank 2 is in the form of a flat square metal piece having at the corners thereof leaves 4 which are adapted to form the lower bell cup. In the center of the piece 2 an X-shaped cut 6 is formed to produce two V- shaped tangs 8 and I0, respectively, which are separated at a point II. Preferably, the V- shaped cuts are formed by a die, and in a further die operation the tangs 8 and I0 are bent upwardly, at right angles to blank 2 as shown in Figure' 2, leaving triangular openings 9 in the blank. Further die operations form the body of the bell as shown in Figure 3, a metal ball being placed inside the body thus formed duringy this body making operation. The bell is then ready for use, and may be attached to a supporting body by pressing the tangs 8 and l0 through the body and bending these tangs over to fasten the bell securely to the body.

In most instances it is desirable, however, to have a crease between tangs 8 and l0, this crease being in the form of a V-shaped groove I2, as is later described. The bell is then completed by the bending of the body and the ears into shape to form the structure of Figure 5.

The manner of fastening the bell to a supporting structure is illustrated in Figure 7. Supporting structure I4 can be of any material through which the sharp pointed tangs 8 and I0 can be pressed, the tangs penetrating clear through material I4 until the body of the bell is drawn up against the lower face of the material, and a portion of the body being separated from the material by virtue of the V-shaped crease l2. The tangs are bent over toward each other to lie on the top of the material, the ends 8a and Illa, respectively, of the tangs being then rebent to point downwardly and either being set in the material, or, if the material is thin, passing through the material.

Crease l2 has several functions. It creates a recess into which the ends 8a and Illa of the tangs can extend as shown in Figure 7, the ends being hidden so they cannot catch or snag against objects brushing across material I4. When the tangs are being bent in a die, crease l2 acts as a reenforcement across the top of the bell to prevent distortion of the bell while the tangs are being closed. It is also possible that the resonant qualities of the bell are protected by virtue of the space left between the bell and the supporting material by crease I 2. Furthermore, should it be desirable to form the crease l2 before tangs 8 and I0 are struck out, this is made possible by reason of the X-shaped cut made in the blank, as the material for the tangs lies wholly in the respective sloping sides of the crease. A

'I'he bell is thus securely fastened to the material as surely as though the bell were riveted or fastened to the material by means of screws. The resonant qualities of the bell are good and inasmuch as the bell can be secured to the material by means of a closing die, the fastening of the bells to the material can be done quickly and inexpensively.

Having now described the means by which the objects of the invention are obtained.

We claim:

1. A jingle bell comprising a bell-shaped body having tangs struck from the material of the body projecting from the body, a crease in said body between said tangs adapted to provide space for receiving the bent over free ends of the tangs,

defined by said slit, and forming a crease in saidv blank between said tangs.

5. The method of securing a jingle bell to a I 6. The method of claim 5, further comprising pushing said free pointed ends of said tangs being pushed through said material and into the space between said crease and said material.

7. A bell structure comprising a bell supporting material, a jingle bell having sharp pointed tangs projecting therefrom, and a crease in the body of Said bell between said tangs, said tangs extending through said material with the body of said bell contacting a surface of said material, said tangs being bent toward each other and lying on the other side of said material, and the free ends of said tangs being further bent toward said bell body and penetrating into said material.

8. A bell structure as in claim 7 said free ends of said tangs penetrating through said material into said crease.

9. A jingle bell comprising a ball-like body having a crease across the top thereof, a pair of V-shaped openings in the side walls of said crease, each opening extending from the top edge of its respective side wall to the bottom of said crease, with the apexes of said V-shaped openings meeting at the bottom of said crease, the material of said body normally filling said openings being bent upwardly along said top edges of said crease to form a pair of upstanding V-shaped tangs integral with said body.

BEN J. FRANKEL. IRVING COHEN.

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